Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association of India (TEMA) has given thumbs up to the government’s announcement of developing 100 Wi-Fi enabled railway stations this year as part of the Rail Budget.

TEMA said: “The domestic telecom industry welcomes the development of enabling 100 new railways stations with Wi-Fi services. This is a positive development in line with the government’s Digital India initiative to bring more internet users online. This would serve to be a great opportunity for the government to encourage domestic Wi-Fi equipment manufacturers to participate in the project and provide level playing field to the domestic players in line with the Make in India campaign.”

“The domestic telecom industry would look forward to more such positive developments in the future and also appreciates the government’s efforts to urbanize the Indian Railways infrastructure,” it further added.

He said that these are challenging times, toughest time; facing dual headwinds and the core objective of the railways is to become engine of economic growth, create employment and provide customer service.

Having over six years of experience in business journalism, Krishna has a knack for writing on telecom and IT. She believes that tryst with technology is the best thing that has ever happened to the mankind. Krishna is a telecom analyst with CMR

It’ll take some time to deliver.. And they should not get BSNL for this. As their WiFi service is pathetic. At Vijayawada bus stand BSNL provides free WiFi which was atrocious of speed up to only 100kbps, and the LOL thing was they named it as ‘5G’ haha! I Just connected for 5mintutes, then it disconnected saying ‘your limit for the day was over.’ While at Vijayawada city centre JIO net provided 35mbps super fast 4g WiFi network. Speed was constant.